An artist who smuggled one of her own paintings into a museum exhibition where it hung on the wall for weeks before the switch was noticed has auctioned the work…
A young hiker who was left unconscious after a horror climbing accident after he fell off a cliff was saved the following morning when his boss called him and woke…
Two construction workers have been arrested after digging a hole through the Great Wall in China and causing irreversible damage to create a shortcut. The two workers - identified as…
Graves containing human bones dating back a thousand years have been discovered during construction work under a school. The images show the skeletons, which were buried with a number of…
An anesthesiologist is facing possible manslaughter charges after a young girl turned up with a broken tooth and later died, with several other kids also taken ill. German authorities opened…
Sea snail shells discovered during excavation work in Lebanon had been taken there to be used as jewellery some 45,000 years ago. The fact that the items were so used…
Alsatian sheepdog sits beside the body of a small white pup and refuses to leave. The grief-stricken dog is seen in phone footage from the city of Luoyang, in Central…
Archaeologists in Israel have found a 6,000-year-old copper fishhook so large it may have been used to catch sharks. The piece, which was unearthed during infrastructure work in the coastal…
A painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso estimated at EUR 1.5 million (GBP 1.3m) to EUR 2.5 million (GBP 2.2m) is due to go under the hammer in Germany. The…
New research into ancient tools has revealed that cutting stones once believed to be made by early humans could actually have been the work of monkeys. Scientists from the Max…